Forza Horizon 6 - General Discussion

[ClydeYellow]

The Porsche is the eggregious one, as it was added into Forza Motorsport (2023) not too long ago for FREE.

I may have a controversial take here, but: it could've been the other way around, but how many people would've bought a relatively obscure mid-80s GT car in FM23? Or they could've just kept it in cold storage for the game that sells. All in all, it's not as egregious is they had paywalled a car that was in the base game or had been released already as paid DLC.

As for the Thunderbird, it last appeared in 2011. I didn't even remember it being in FM4, tbtf. And it was probably redone from scratch.

It would've been better to have the cars as free Playlist rewards, yes, and I understand the point being made, but I'm not feeling cheated out of my money by them being in the Pass.

Well.. I might see how many I can get done over the weekend, both tuning logos and Weeb-related.

if folks made their stuff via Forzapainter I have no shame yanking them

You should feel profound shame for using the garbage Forzapainter outputs. /s

 

[notarjy]

For me, first trial back on the PC was a breeze, used the BRZ FE and had at least two other competent team mates to close out the podium spots.

After playing the game only with low settings on steam deck for the last month, it was amazing to come back to playing on PC with extreme+RT and high fps, just an amazing looking game on a technical level with all the detail to still perform so well, and the game feels so nice to play with the xbox controller impulse triggers

 

[Populuxe]

I hope you guys and gals found The Trial easier than I did.

l tried the BRZ FE twice, but I just couldn’t get it to behave. I quit halfway through the first lap twice. I switched to the Sterrato and won it easily in just two races.

 

[shaboo]

Once again, I am late to the party. I just realized there are cars with 9x skill multipliers, so you only need 55,556 skill score to get the max ten skill points.

Spoiler: Cars with the 9x skill multiplier

1983 Audi Sport Quattro
1977 Ford #5 Escort RS 1800 MK II
1984 Lancia Stratos HF Stradale
1995 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 3 GSR
2004 Lancer Lancer Evolution VIII ‘Welcome Pack’
2006 Lancer Lancer Evolution IX MR
1984 Peugeot 205 Turbo 16
1998 Subaru Empreza 22B-STi Version
2022 Subaru WRX
2021 Toyota GR Yaris

Don't look at the multiplier only. The perks that make your car's skill multiplier built up faster are at least as important! The maximum you can get here for a x9 car is "Where The Fun Begins", making your car's multiplier build up 2.5 times as fast. Not all x9 cars have this perk.

Besides those x9/x2.5 cars there are also several x7/x3 cars which - depending on the other skill bonusses - may be just as good.

 

[PJTierney]

I wish they'd just give in and give us the option to "open source" our liveries and vinyl groups already. We haven't had that feature since (I think) the XB360 games. I mean, some of the messages in the game even still mention them as if we have the ability to open source them, but nope they're just all locked. Main usecase I think is switching colors to better fit whatever livery you're putting together. Think: you're using others' vinyl groups to put together a Subaru WRX livery but some of the logos are the slightly wrong shade of yellow, ect.

EventLab Prefabs are all open source which makes me think it should happen for other UGC too. Give players the option to choose when sharing if they want to lock or not, throw up warnings before sharing unlocked etc.

I wrote up a detailed suggestion on the feedback portal the day it was open but good luck finding it.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Anyone struggling with the Trail this week should get the Mercedes Benz X-Class pick up and put Don Joewon Song's tune on it, it pretty OP and I breezed through as we won inside two races and I won them both.

 

[shaboo]

If you're referring to a specific tune, please either give its share code (that's what it is for) or at least the exact gamertag. Anything else is useless.

 

[-Fred-]

Trial is mostly dependant on how good your teammates are / how they tend to race, and not about how good your vehicle is, so it really doesn't matter. You could show up with an OP build, if everyone else in your team finishes 8th to 12th it doesn't matter.

 

[Doog]

Usually I prepare a car for the trial, but this time I decided to just use the F-450 FE off the shelf. It was chaotic, but my size insulated me from most of it. To the other players, I was probably the chaos.

 

[LumpiestFish]

Maybe it’s just a coincidence, but while I was going through and saving some of ClydeYellow’s logos (Thanks a heap by the way, it’s genuinely just reignited my interest in creating liveries again, I haven’t touched it much at all because I simply don’t have the time to create accurate logos), my game crashed and I can’t past the opening screen ever since..

 

[Beebo]

My game also crashed too, but it was happening randomly whenever I would make a search for the vinyl groups. For example I could sort by the "funny" tag and it'd crash the game, but only sometimes. So beware of that if you're downloading vinyl groups, whether to unlock them or just use them in general. That being said, my game was able to launch afterwards but I cooled it on downloads for now since I don't want to potentially corrupt my save...

 

[shaboo]

Trial is mostly dependant on how good your teammates are / how they tend to race, and not about how good your vehicle is, so it really doesn't matter. You could show up with an OP build, if everyone else in your team finishes 8th to 12th it doesn't matter.

It's only one factor, but of course it does matter. The better you drive yourself, the better you can compensate for weaker team members. Sometimes there are only two of you; in this case, you will successfully complete the Trial by winning, even if your teammate finishes last in every race.

 

[Populuxe]

Huh. Interesting. I had a notice that @UKMikey beat me in a rivals race at a mystery track. Since it was in the N600, it was obviously at the Edamame Circuit.

When I clicked on it, I got this message:

Going to Horizon Rivals>Road Racing>Edamame Circuit>D400 gave me randos in everything except the Honda N600. Going to Monthly Rivals>Edamame Circuit finally gave me a rival in the N600, but it was @ykiki instead. Good enough. He’s a bud. Let’s have some fun. It took me several laps (he’s a monster into that first corner, pulling an easy two car lengths each time) but I finally got him.

Only then did the game offer up Mikey as a rival. Again, it took several laps, but I finally put together a lap to be proud of, even getting down into the 48s.

So rivals is slightly broken for Edamame Circuit, but it’s still fun.

 

[UKMikey]

Maybe it’s just a coincidence, but while I was going through and saving some of ClydeYellow’s logos (Thanks a heap by the way, it’s genuinely just reignited my interest in creating liveries again, I haven’t touched it much at all because I simply don’t have the time to create accurate logos), my game crashed and I can’t past the opening screen ever since..

Sorry to hear that. Have you tried deleting your local save and resyncing from the cloud? I left some console tips on how to do this here but the method is probably different for PC. If you use this please pay careful attention to the warning about not deleting your cloud save otherwise you'll lose your progress.

So rivals is slightly broken for Edamame Circuit, but it’s still fun.

It seems very broken. I don't even remember driving the N600. Sierra 700R is great for A-class though.

Judging by the past-tense course description, I'm confident Edamame'll stick around as a Rivals track once Mascot Party is over.

 

[TGR55]

Okay so this time i'm making post about a new game mode placeholder in FH6 (its not Drift Attack)

The name of the mode in the files is "Horizon Chase"

As the name implies its about chasing. The files mentioned Chopper as one of the vehicle you would chase.

Although Shinkansen and Train are also mentioned as the other vehicles. It's also going to be a freeroam event based on the text strings.

There also this text string mentioning about Advertising Job. So its going to be about advertising the Horizon Festival

 

[breeminator]

Trial is mostly dependant on how good your teammates are / how they tend to race, and not about how good your vehicle is, so it really doesn't matter. You could show up with an OP build, if everyone else in your team finishes 8th to 12th it doesn't matter.

I made the mistake of beating the AIs by a huge margin in race 2, meaning that my teammates couldn't beat the AIs (I think the AIs drive faster if there's a human a long way ahead) and my team lost that race. Lesson learned, in the 3rd race I drove super slowly, blocking the AIs, which allowed 2 humans to pass me, and I kept the AIs behind them, and the team won. Having an OP build makes it easier to do that because I'm confident if an AI slips past me I can easily re-pass it.

 

[psychoazubi]

I made the mistake of beating the AIs by a huge margin in race 2, meaning that my teammates couldn't beat the AIs (I think the AIs drive faster if there's a human a long way ahead) and my team lost that race. Lesson learned, in the 3rd race I drove super slowly, blocking the AIs, which allowed 2 humans to pass me, and I kept the AIs behind them, and the team won. Having an OP build makes it easier to do that because I'm confident if an AI slips past me I can easily re-pass it.

After 2 loses (in 2-0 both) I also went to do that tactic. 1-2 players went ahead with fastest AI, my other teammates were awfully slow. So I managed to block the remaining AI enough to be able to secure a win with a very small margin since only one of my mates was able to catch up again

 

[Digolgrin]

Okay so this time i'm making post about a new game mode placeholder in FH6 (its not Drift Attack)

The name of the mode in the files is "Horizon Chase"
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As the name implies its about chasing. The files mentioned Chopper as one of the vehicle you would chase.

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Although Shinkansen and Train are also mentioned as the other vehicles. It's also going to be a freeroam event based on the text strings.

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There also this text string mentioning about Advertising Job. So its going to be about advertising the Horizon Festival

I wonder if this was a scrapped Horizon Stunt Party game type? It always baffled me how the only time you're required to 'race' a train is in the Opening Drive, never in a Showcase or even a Day Trip story, even though that's basically been a Horizon tradition since 4.

Even if this were the case, I can see why they wouldn't implement this. Time Attack and Drag Meets are already consistent moneymakers, considering you're basically making 60,000 credits an hour just laying down times. Why would you go out of your way to race a bullet train for credits when the time attack circuits and drag strips are right there?

 

[Populuxe]

It seems very broken. I don't even remember driving the N600.

You've done the Monthly rivals in the Weekly Playlist, right?

 

[UKMikey]

You've done the Monthly rivals in the Weekly Playlist, right?

Thanks. That must be it.

 

[Eraldodisha]

Okay so this time i'm making post about a new game mode placeholder in FH6 (its not Drift Attack)

The name of the mode in the files is "Horizon Chase"
View attachment 1558231

As the name implies its about chasing. The files mentioned Chopper as one of the vehicle you would chase.

View attachment 1558232
Although Shinkansen and Train are also mentioned as the other vehicles. It's also going to be a freeroam event based on the text strings.

View attachment 1558233

There also this text string mentioning about Advertising Job. So its going to be about advertising the Horizon Festival

What about any leaked cars?

 

[PlageBLN]

It has just occurred to me that, somehow, shared vinyl groups are unlocked after this update.

This is an invite to all paint booth veterans and casuals alike to peruse my Storefront and download what you need before they realize they did something right for once and patch that up. Alas, I'll be away this weekend, but I'll be sure to upload more stuff for everybody to "steal" as soon as I can.

Who knows, maybe after this fiasco they'll realize some people don't care to "monetize" their vinyl groups and will give us the option to just share them unlocked, no bugs or trickery involved?

The vinyls I've imported today were showing up with a "lock" symbol in my hub. Are they still unlocked? I obviously can't check that as creator.

I've shared this one here as test. Can somebody check if you can "open" it in the editor, please?

Share code: 641 852 812

Sidenote: This is the new (actual) logo of Fuchsfelgen (Fox rims) a German wheel manufacturer that produced the famous Porsche "Cloaver Leaf" or Mercedes "Barock" wheels for example.

 

[UKMikey]

I'm not a painter but it'd be wild if they've rushed to fix this bug ahead of time.

It's just like being able to play daily challenges early. Beneficial bugs never seem to last.